Quotes About Nutrition

Leafy greens such as romaine lettuce, kale, collards, Swiss chard, and spinach are the most nutrient-dense of all foods.

irrefutable evidence that Americans were committing suicide with food.

It makes good sense to peel fruits if possible, and not to eat potato skins unless you are able to purchase pesticide-free potatoes. Remove and discard the outermost leaves of lettuce and cabbage if not organically grown; other surfaces that cannot be peeled can be washed with soap and water or a commercial vegetable wash. Washing with plain water removes 25 to 50 percent of the pesticide residue.

Of the thirteen currently recognized vitamins, four are fat-soluble (vitamins A, D, E, and K) and nine are water-soluble (eight B vitamins and vitamin C).

Because myrosinase can be deactivated by heat or cooking, it is important to eat some raw cruciferous vegetables every day and chew them exceptionally

GLYCEMIC INDEX (GI) AND GLYCEMIC LOAD (GL) OF COMMON PLANT FOODS* FOOD GI GL Black beans 30 7 Red kidney beans 25 8 Lentils 30 5 Split peas 25 6 Black-eyed peas 30 13 Corn 52 9 Barley 35 16 Brown rice 75 18 Millet 71 25 Rolled oats 55 13 White rice 83 23 Whole wheat 70 14 White pasta 55 23 Sweet potato 61 17 White potato (average) 90 26 There is a nutritional hierarchy of carbohydrate-rich plant foods.

Because myrosinase can be deactivated by heat or cooking, it is important to eat some raw cruciferous vegetables every day and chew them exceptionally well.

Shred some red cabbage or Chinese cabbage on your salad, add a little arugula or watercress, or use a bit of ground mustard seed for flavor.

The only other nutrients low or borderline low with a diet without animal products are B12, zinc, iodine, and the marine fats eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), all of which are easily supplemented. Of course, vitamin D, the "sunshine vitamin," also has to be considered because deficiencies are common and can lead to serious health problems.

If you eat cooked broccoli, kale, bok choy, or other cruciferous vegetables later in a meal, the myrosinase you ate from the raw vegetables will make the cooked veggies produce more ITCs.

When you cook soups with added greens, make sure to process the greens in a blender first, while they are still raw, and then add them to the soup liquid. Blending the greens before they are heated will allow the ITCs to be formed. Note that if you had added them to the soup first, cooked them until soft, and then blended them, the myrosinase would have been deactivated and fewer ITCs would be formed.

When you eat more foods that have a high-nutrient density and fewer foods with a low-nutrient density, your health will dramatically improve and your diabetes will melt away. When

Junk food isn't cheap; we pay a steep price for it years after consuming it.

For maximal disease prevention, sodium levels should probably be less than 1,000 mg/day—which is about the normal level for our biological needs.

Your health is dependent on the amount of nutrients in your diet. I

Being conservative and cautious here, I suggest taking supplemental DHA and EPA if you are not eating fish regularly, but do not overdo supplementation. I prefer an algae-based DHA and EPA in a relatively low dose to prevent deficiency, so you can be assured it is free from environmental contaminants that can be found in fish and fish oil.

The good news is, the healthier you eat and the better you feel, the more you will want to exercise and keep your body in the best possible shape. Yes

This study also demonstrated that a low-dose, algae-derived supplement of only 265 milligrams of EPA (88 milligrams) plus DHA (177 milligrams) was sufficient to normalize the omega-3 index results on subsequent blood tests.

Steak has only 6.4 grams of protein per 100 calories and broccoli has 11.1 grams, almost twice as much.

As with the green cruciferous vegetables, those in the allium family must be eaten raw and chewed well or chopped finely before cooking to initiate the chemical reaction that forms the protective sulfur compounds.

More than 40 percent of Americans aged twenty years and older have either diabetes or prediabetes according to a review of data from the 2005–2006 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.

Cut or chop the onion finely, or put it in a blender or food processor before cooking. •  Eat some raw onion every day.

Incredible as it seems, high-calorie, trans-fat-filled french fries are the most common vegetable eaten by young children today.

Vegetables and fruits protect against all types of cancers if consumed in large enough quantities.